Not The Usual Day At The Office
As I walked into the office, I felt myself heave an overly loud sigh of distress... When did this job from Hell ever end? I thought to myself. I swear, some days I just felt like crawling in a hole and dying, some days I felt like committing suicide, and the cause of it all was my boss, my overly commanding boss. If there was such a thing as the biggest asshole on the face of this earth, it was him. He was constantly telling me to do the most boring and pointless work that there was to be done around the office. I took my place at my desk and turned on the computer. As I was waiting for it to start up, my mind began wandering again to my shitty life.
I don't even know why I put up with it, because he has been a jerk to me since day one. I didn't owe anything to him, or have any compelling reason to do what I was doing. I wasn't even just doing work, I was getting him lunch on my lunch-break, I was working overtime without the pay, everything that you could imagine that would make your life a living hell on the job.
I didn't even realize that I was just sitting there, staring blankly into my screen saver until he came up to me.
"Um, Jessica, it doesn't look like you are getting much work done here... Now does it?" I straightened up and quickly logged into the computer, then got up to face him.
"I-I-I'm sorry, Jus- I mean, Mr. Timberlake" My eyes darted to his, which glowered under the fluorescent lights. I felt anger build up in me immediately, as it always did when he approached me, but I never said anything. I managed to bite my lip and clench my fists once again, thinking about how much I needed this job. I quickly looked down at my feet.
"That's more like it." He snapped. He pushed my chin up to look into his eyes once again. Their burning glaze pierced straight through my eyes, and I felt my knees go weak from the sheer power of his stare. "I can't have you slacking off like that anymore, I have too much work to do." He quickly released my chin, and I kept my eyes locked to him as he turned and walked into his office.
I licked my lips inadvertently, and got back to work, but soon again I was drifting off. The way he stared into my eyes, for those moments I forgot about how he was the biggest asshole in the world. I replayed his gaze over and over in my mind, then I let my imagination wander to other things... the way he walked, with a manly stride, one that just screamed, "don't mess with me-or else," his long, muscular forearms... his supple ass... his life. No one knew much about him, just what they saw at work. I began to wonder what his life was like, if he did anything fun ever, if he had a girlfriend... The horrible thoughts from him faded from my mind as I began to think of the mysteriousness of this man. What would he be like if he wasn’t a complete jerk? I longed to know.
What was I thinking? Who cares, I thought, as I pushed all of my wild fantasies to the back of my head. This IS the biggest asshole on the face of this earth, for all I know. He can go fuck himself. I gave myself a mental kick and began to do my tedious work once again.
One, two, finally three hours passed by as I glanced at the clock every so often. It was about 12 o'clock, and I was about ready to go mad. I decided that this would be a good time to take my lunch break, so I grabbed my purse as fast as I could and tried to dart out of there without Justin seeing me. Of course, it was too late. As I passed the water machine I heard someone clearing their throat behind me.
"Ahem!" I knew who it was before I even turned around.
"I-I was just leaving to go eat, I'm starving." I looked down at my feet, but I could still feel his eyes piercing into me.
"Whatever. Before you leave come into my office, I have some… things to discuss with you." With that he abruptly turned heel and strode into his office, slamming the door. I thought I might as well get this over with, so I could recover on my lunch break, if I was to even have one. I heaved a large sigh and walked over to the door and into his office.
He was at his desk furiously writing something. I walked over and stood about three feet in front of his desk, with my hands meekly at my sides. I was not in the mood to be dealing with this today. To my surprise he quickly slammed his pen down, and stood up slowly, his eyes locking with mine. He walked over to the door and slowly shut it, the creaking of the old woodwork ringing through the room. He never once took his gaze from mine, as the light of the room dimmed from the shutting of the door.
He lingered in the shadow of his filing cabinet, and then slowly made his way over to me. I didn't realize that I was slowly backing away from him until my back brushed against the wall. Lord, was I that scared and pitiful? In a weak attempt to hide my fear of him I straightened my back and put a blank look on my face, for God knows what expression I had on before. My face was now inches away from his. Thank God I wasn't short, I thought, as I stared eye-level with him.
"Did you want to discuss something with me?" I tried to state with no emotion. He just eyed me up and down, his face showing no signs whatsoever.